When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

My only day off is the day I pitch.

My only day off is the day I pitch (in regards to how hard he works out during off-days).

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic.

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come back and get in an environment I'm comfortable with.

Andy Pettitte is my friend...I think he misremembers.

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

A diamond only truly appreciates pressure the day it begins to shine.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.